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[Lochie]

Please, do not like this post...I have a new reed and it's quite good...

[Lochie]

If your bars are full, you're supposed to report to the factory.

[Lochie]

They are little bars of Soylent Orange....
only people with lots of them may get that reference...

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Exactly why we don't play O Canada up here in the Great white north....or at least we shouldn't...not everyone got the memo...unfortunately...

[Lochie]

Very, very cool stuff.
I have a lovely Hardie pipe from 1960 with the FN stamp on the silver.
it never occurred to me that I might be able...

[Lochie]

The terms of easy - medium are useful to ballpark a reeds stiffness, which as noted above is only one aspect of a reed.
One has to remember that...

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I've been doing it Jim's way, tube out to ease evaporation, but still in the pipe case. Blowpipe is loose in the case with a home made equivalent of a...

[Lochie]

Since the OP mentioned practice chanter, I'll offer what I tell my new students.
Rest the sole of the chanter on the table holding your music, or...

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It's funny how perspectives change over the decades.
I started in the 1970s, and most players had pipes with catalin mounts. More often than not...

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Yes, this should be interesting indeed.
And we should all take a page and do a little spring cleaning to free up some items for the new folks joining...

[Lochie]

If I had to guess I'd say Regimental mascot.
Used to be popular in Brit/Commonwealth units...there are still a few around, but not as many.
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Not really, being bellows driven no extra humidity is being introduced. Opening the reed helps, but then I'd have to start closing it back down late spring...

[Lochie]

Buffalo NY...
Did this happen over the winter season?
You and I enjoy the same climate and I have also had this issue on occasion. I have...

[Lochie]

It all makes perfect sense now!

[Lochie]

First off, I'm right handed....so I'm speaking from pure ignorance here....but since both hands need to work with relatively equal dexterity, what's the...